PEACEKEEPING, AFRICA AND THE EMERGING GLOBAL SECURITY ARCHITECTURE

Introduction Tlie changes in the division of labour in global security evident i n the postSeptember 11, 2001 world are nccelerating and bcconiing clear. Tlie two initial factors that lie ar the heart of this are rhe cumulative effect of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent unprecedented global military and economic power of the US. Tlic reaction in Africa to rhis, and more recently to that of global terrorism was, justifiably, to fear its marginalisation. Despite the fact that the largest UN peace mission is in Africa (in Sierra Leone), the long-established trend of western troop disengagement in fnvour of alternative pragmatic solutions, dubbed ‘African solrtrions to African problems’ by non-Africans, is evident.